Quick question is not quick
And it's long and slow, so, let's talk about morals.

Would you rather earn your money working for an evil multinational that is making a mess of the environment or being a hooker?

Alt. Q: Which thing you'd never EVER do in order to earn money?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:37, 214 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

Multinational, easy
Fuck the environment, that's my kids problems.

Alt Q: Telesales, never again.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:39, Reply)

You, nasty boy

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)

You're shocked by this?
You're pretty much the only one I'm nice to!
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)

you're ok to me
sometimes. there is a female theme here.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I hadn't particularly noticed that he was nasty
relatively speaking (compared to Monty, or TGB for example) he's full of sweetness and light.

and as a result the niceness to you lady types is cloying and nauseating.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

I'm not particularly nasty, mainly just dismissive

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Yeah, great.
Anyway...
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)

I work in corporate telesales and I fucking love it.
I sell ads and mag features; I speak to interesting and important people about business, I get a buzz from it, and I'm paid well.

I don't really care about the environment - I think most of it is propaganda to make us feel we have to pay more tax. I don't think we should go out of our way to damage the world (I recycle and all that), but I think our effect is negligible.

And I think most Green info is dangerously misleading and far far too subjective.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)

but..but...THE WHALES!

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:43, Reply)

It pains me slightly to say it
but evil multinational corporation, I think. Unless I was a very high class escort type, but even then I don't think I could have sex with people for money.
I don't think I'd ever be able to be a conman or criminal. I don't have the nerve, and I'm too softhearted to screw people over.
(berk, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)

I don't think I could work in the army
Even if I'm not directly killing anyone.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)

I was in the RAF cadets
at school. I quite enjoyed it, actually. Although I don't think I could shoot anyone - or have anyone shoot at me, either, even if they missed!
(berk, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)

I'm too nervous to be involved in combat
Call of Duty scares me, I just find it stressful.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I know, I get too nervous
and sad when they dye.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)

"Oh my god, my uniform has gone RED!"
Sorry...
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I don't know if I understand...
Is it die instead of dye?
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)

Yes, die is to indicate death
Dye is when you colour your clothes/hair
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:42, Reply)

Always wrong...
They shouldn't be so similar, meaning so different things.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:48, Reply)

I just try and hide in the grass like a rabbit
and then suddenly BOOM HEADSHOT! every sodding time. I didn't find out for ages that you had a radar to tell you where everyone else is on the screen so I was just sitting there whilst everyone aimed at me.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)

Hahaha
Poor kitty.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)

Sex is fun and that, maybe hooker
I've worked for an evil multinational, it wasn't so bad.
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:41, Reply)

But I suppose sex for a living could make it dull :S that would be bad
I'd have to choose the multinational
( Maximinimus you stick around I'll make it worth your while, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Cold calling SUCKS ASS MORE THAN FOXY

( TGB checking Off Topic is still shit at, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Many, many times over.

(berk, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

It's fucking shit, isn't it?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:44, Reply)

Bumming?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)

You'd know

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:47, Reply)

Sorry dear.
I thought your question was a question.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)

Maybe a request?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

Multinational
'Cos I'm a right ugly fucker who'd make no cash as a hooker.

Alt: Recruitment. They're a shower of shits.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

Evil multinational corporation please
I'd probably willingly pick it over a lot of jobs, and since there is not a thing on this planet that would make me consider prostitution it really is a very easy choice.

Alt Q: prostitution or dealing drugs

Edit: besides I'd make so little from prostitution
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:42, Reply)

I'm rubbish at rugby, so I guess it's the evil corporation for me

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

*dies laughing*


(!)
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:48, Reply)

There's a Welsh rugby player called 'Dai Young'
My dad always calls him "Die Laughing"

I hate rugby.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:51, Reply)

Dai Young - the king of Welsh goth.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)

There's lovely

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Rugby's class.
This may or may not be because I've played at Twickenham.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)

+with myself

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)

That's neither here nor there really.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:27, Reply)

If rugby is so great how come it's shit?
answer that one sonny-jim
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:26, Reply)

That's an excellent line of questioning.

(Cave Duck, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I would work for a company ruining the environment for free.

(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:43, Reply)

Can I do both please?

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:45, Reply)

A prozzie with foul emissions?

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)

I prefer the term "Male Escort."

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)

I do apologise.
I never realised that you were a class-brass.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

One does one's best.

(Bear Pookie The Frankly Challenged. Halloween is coming to town., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

I do work for an Evil Multinational Corporation...
... the Government.

Oh yeah, I went there.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:46, Reply)

Alt. ‘That’, to quote Meat Loaf

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:50, Reply)

I'm sure loafy
Was talking about 'love' and not work.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Originally, yes
but wait until he appears on "Celebrity Come Dine With Me."
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

Evil Multinational
Because at least the comfort of your office puts some distance from the evil you're wreaking.

Alt Q: Play Country and Western music.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:52, Reply)

Yeah but hookers work from their beds

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

True,
but even the thickest ribbed condom doesn't distance you very much from the grubby multinational-manager's cock in your hole.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:56, Reply)

no it's not true at all
the clients' wives are in their beds. hookers work from cars/offices...
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Ah, well if that were the case
then I'd have to insist on working from a Honda Accord, at the very least.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

Evil Multinational
Cos then I could work to bring them down from the inside.

I don't know, I'd do pretty much anything for money.
(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:53, Reply)

except you'd get swallowed up by them
and saying things like. 'Yeah course I'm trying to bring it down. Next year, after the bonuses perhaps.'
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:57, Reply)

Yep, or justifying what you're doing because some of your shareholders
are pension funds so if you fuck the company up then old people will be hungry.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

exactly
while raking it in and trying to retain moral superiority 'I nicked thirteen paperclips and a potplant, I'm obviously trying to topple them'
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:03, Reply)

If I don't do it someone EVEN WORSE would take the job
Maybe even a forrin.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)

morning!
How did it go last night? Did The Plan work?
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

I'll gaz you.

(Applebite Uh! A cow!, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

The Plan?
More info, please.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)

i would never
sponge off anyone else. wilmslow is full of women who've never worked a day in their lives but still drip with brand new cars and designer kit because their husband pays for everything. i'd hate that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:54, Reply)

That's the spirit!
I'd be really embarrassed saying I didn't work.
Unless I was doing a lot of voluntary work or raising sprogs.
(And I mean raising them properly - not smoking outside a soft-play area with the other mothers.)
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

This
If I ever get to be a stay at home mum my kids aren't going to get a moment's peace from all the arts and crafts and education and crap I'm going to ram down their throats.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)

until they are about 5 and at school
it's lovely if you can.

after that, omg, how dull would your life/conversation be?? and also, when your husband comes home really knackered and stressed after winning bread all day, whilst you've just had another manicure and spraytan... no no no.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

I think I would probably still try and maintain my own income
through things like my corset selling and stuff, I don't think I could sit on my arse all day, I'd be well bored. If I couldn't work I'd have to involve myself in loads of charities and things and become one of those annoying busybodies.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)

Too right sitting about all day gets boring
Hence why I've taken about 2000 photos in the last month and a bit, and helpfully strained my eye.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)

photos?
do you have a website??
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)

Don't have a site for my photos
Just use my Flickr account.
(PenguinOfDeath is Scottish, and most likely angry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)

ta for the gaz

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)

not working doesn't mean you just have to sit on your arse
my mum didn't work and yet has had a productive and interesting life.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:10, Reply)

totally true
but in wilmslow they just sit on their arses waiting for their car to be 12 months old so they can have a new one. trust me.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:26, Reply)

Yeah right
they'll be plonked in front of Ceebeebies while you swig neat vodka from the bottle
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

haha

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)

My mum used to keep old birthday cards
Then occasionally she'd say "Ooh, shall we write on the birthday cards!" like it was a big treat.
By the time I got to nursery I could read and write and I hadn't even noticed she was teaching me.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)

My mum was similar
I was gobsmacked when I got to school and there were kids who barely even knew the alphabet. What had their parents been doing for the last 5 years ffs?
(berk, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

yeah this
if we went out anywhere my parents would make me add up the bill and little things like that.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:06, Reply)

I couldn't believe it when the other kids
only knew the one version of "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" but none of the Mozart variations.
(LongJohnBaldry, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)

twinkle, twinkle, little bat
was Wolfgang's seminal piece, I felt.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:19, Reply)

"how I wonder where you're at"
Is ending a sentence with a preposition, though.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:08, Reply)

my parents were teachers
so taught from day one. It does bemuse me when children go to school unable to read or know basic letters though. Five years worth and the parents haven't bothered even with regular storybooks/ tracing words etc
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)

But everyone should do it regardless of whether they're teachers. There's no excuse.
My mum was married at 17 and had me at 18. She was a hairdresser.
It's not difficult to give a kid the basics. Just singing it at them usually does the trick.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)

that's what I'm saying :)
all you have to do even is just read storybooks to them, and make sure they trace the words. Play the Alphabet song etc.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)

Sesame Street was good, except for the 'zee' thing...

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:29, Reply)

my mum wouldn't let me watch Sesame Street in case I picked up Americanisms
I like, totally, showed her.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)

My friend keeps saying 'zee' when he's spelling
I've managed to convince absolutely everyone to say 'What?' every single time he says it now, he's starting to get quite frustrated.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)

The music was ace though
We've got an audio tape of me singing 'I'm Gonna be a Country Girl Again' in the style of Bufy Sainte Marie. Because of Sesame Street.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)

and me
i was a swotty little toddler who kept asking my mother what words said, so she taught me to read (she was a primary school teacher anyway). still can't count though.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)

I can't count either
But I remember when I was about 3/4 my mum had been teaching me about letters that go together to make other sounds (th, sh, ch etc) and there was a sign saying 'Beware of Vehicles'. I saw the c and the h and got mixed up, thinking it was a 'chuh' sound.
I spent ages being terrified of these mythical 'Vechiles' behind the post Office fence.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)

awww
that's really sweet.

maths is for losers anyway.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:25, Reply)

I liked it better when I got older
Like algebra and interesting things. But I CANNOT do arithmetic.
It frightens me when people ask me to tot things up.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)

aww you'll make Chompy cry saying stuff like that

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)

nah
he doesn't rate my opinion highly enough for that!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)

Now kids we're going to do some baking
"we've got 12 orders in get those done by 12 and you get a gold star. Mummy's going out now clean up after yourseld"
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:07, Reply)

This is funny because kitty will never get 12 orders.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)

*Reads between the lines*
How I wish I'd slayed a rich bloke...
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

pfffffffffft
never depend on a man except your daddy!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)

Quite true

( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:01, Reply)

Got some cracking restaurants though

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:04, Reply)

it's a nice town
but it was much nicer when i still lived at home (apart from that!). it's very footballers' wives chavtastic these days, and all the pubs are FULL of orange 17 year olds in zero clothes and skyhigh heels trying desperately to hook a footballer.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:09, Reply)

Definitely
Midweek is a different matter I find, we went to Revolution on a Thursday night with work, it was really good in there.
( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)

that used to be a cinema
when all this were fields. then it was a pub called the samuel finney.

he was a famous local politician.

who campaigned for most of his life against alcohol... also i nearly got arrested in there for stealing smirnoff shotglasses.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Haha, tut tut!

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Traffic Warden
Postman.
Nothing that involves walking the streets or upsetting people.
That rules out prozzyism too!
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:55, Reply)

I think being a postman (besides the shit pay) would be class.
Headphones in, pack of fags in your shirt pocket and walking everywhere (kind of) doing as you please. Great exercise too.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

But DOGS, Barry, DOGS!
I couldn't be getting chased by dogs.
Or going on estates.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)

You could be an upper class postman
refuse to deliver to the working class scum.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)

I'm scared of suburbs as well.

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)

....why?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:16, Reply)

Well there might be dogs or rapists
and it's too quiet in a dangerous way.
I'm only comfortable in the city (but main roads, not estates) and near the river or sea, or the countryside, but not parks.
I can do totally urban or the wilds of the country, but not suburbs.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:34, Reply)

how curious
why do you think there are more suburban rapists than city or country ones?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)

it's just easier for them
The city is too busy, the country is too much of a faff to travel to.
There are exceptions but most rapes I've heard of have been in parks or suburbs.
Dog attacks happen on estates and in parks and suburbs.
This is how my mind works.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:52, Reply)

I blame Brookside.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:56, Reply)

I thought if there was a dog in the way postmen would just refuse deliver it

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

dogs are pretty difficult to deliver
takes a fucking age to get a Newfoundland through a letterbox. Even if you do have a blender.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Anything bigger than a chihuahua you just stick a note through.

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)

they sometimes roam the streets

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

*hums 'Littlest Hobo' theme tune*

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)

I knew a postman
He got the sack.....
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:00, Reply)

*wipes tears*

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:05, Reply)

I applied to be one as a last ditch summer job
didn't get it

didn't get the gravedigger job or the one photoshopping 'adult' photos either
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

I don't think I could strip or have sex for money
despite what you all think. I'd like to think that I could do it, but I would chicken out when it came down to it.

I would never be able to hurt things for a living, be it animal experimentation or tattooist.

I would work for a multinational corporation but if I earned a lot I would give money to charities to try and offset my guilt!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

animal experimentation isn't actually hurting things for a living, you know ...

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:11, Reply)

I couldn't experiment on an animal though, cutting it open and such like,
and then kill it at the end. I couldn't be a doctor either for that reason (obviously not the killing bit), I can't hack gore.
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:24, Reply)

I have worked for several multinationals & other large co's - it's your opinion it they're evil or not:
The Coca-Cola Company, Amazon.com, Pizza Hut, Sainsbury's and WH Smith.

Since I set up the agency we haven't worked for anyone horrible I think - we refused to work for a tabacco company last year.

EDIT: I would do most legal things for money, except have sex with a man.
(lkjshaglkasjdhglkhjz lkcvl; g;aodh;owih, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:58, Reply)

I dunno about evil
Pizza Hut are clearly pizzawrong cunts, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)

OK.
I think being forced to endlessly turk middle-aged desperate women would prove ultimately depressing, however the job satisfaction would be quite gratifying. Plus the hours and money would be pretty good, too (I’m talking about me personally, here, I’d be able to command an extremely high fee. Most of the other blokes on here would probably end up having to pay them).

Working for a multinational evil corporation wouldn’t bother me, though, because I have no morals and don’t care about my fellow man one little bit.

I would not have sex with men for money – or commit murder. Other than that – gaz me.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 11:59, Reply)

so, these desperate women...

( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:02, Reply)

Ye-es?

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Why the fuck did you get one up the duff?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:20, Reply)

He'd swallowed all his condoms.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)

I thought
I’d met the right one for me. She is extremely good looking, very clever and capable of great thoughtfulness and kindness. The sadistic, twisted malevolence and physical violence didn’t appear until later.

*I always think that, mind you. I am a fool.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)

My answer was better.

(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)

i am not sure whether to go with the
"i am one, will you bone me for a fee" or "why are you cheating on me" route. you pick one and respond accordingly (like those 'choose your own destiny' books)
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)

I want to make a pro bono joke
but I'm not clever enough
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:25, Reply)

you mean
i could do monty as pro-boner?

i could but (i) he doesn't qualify as sufficiently desperate for free assistance and (ii) i've fulfilled my charity quota for this year.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)

but monty is very anti Bono
lololoerzcopter
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)

£800 per hour and I'll do THE LOT.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)

that's about 5 seconds each
what can you do in 5 seconds?
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

Not ‘the lot of you’ – I mean THE LOT.

( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:42, Reply)

so you're saying
that you'd pay me?

no other women please. i am all about the exclusivity and mutual trust and affection.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)

Endlessy turk middle-aged desperate women?
I wonder if that's why my ex dumped me.
( girlinthehole, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:32, Reply)

why is an evil multinational specifically responsible for making a mess of the environment?
And how is it evil? How do you anthromorphise something that cannot have emotional characteristics?

Humanities demands and wants make a mess of the environment. Multinationals service those demands and wants. You can no more blame them for it or call them evil than you can call a lump of coal evil or blame if for daring to be a fuel.

Having said that, yeah, I'll be a hooker. Why not, eh?
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:08, Reply)

coal is evil man
just look at it. all black and stuff.


fucking coal
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:12, Reply)

it's good luck

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)

Not in Aberfan

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)

zing.
well played sir.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

Cheers, I thought it might be too soon
also it was technically slag wot done it
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

Fucking slag.

(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:00, Reply)

fucking coal cunts.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I've just pictured a bloke shouting and wagging his finger at a piece of coal blaming it for all the environmental woes in the world.
It made me laugh.
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:13, Reply)

I blame all the marine life for dying
then being crushed and forming lovely, lovely oil. How terribly shellfish.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)

I've haddock enough of all these puns.
*grabs coat and leaves*
(Barry from Eastenders is, despite the words written above, not a woman, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:18, Reply)

^ this
but then I don't think anyone with a brain would pick being a prostitute over working for a successful company
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:14, Reply)

but it's all like Pretty Woman, right?

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:15, Reply)

It certainly is
after a few years you are guaranteed* to marry a handsom billionaire who loves you for who you are.


*This is not a guarantee
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:22, Reply)

or Diary of a Callgirl
in which every women is pretty and healthy and has actively picked selling herself as a career. Which is just messed up.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:23, Reply)

Do you reckon Billie Piper could get her entire fist in her mouth?
I reckon she could
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:27, Reply)

I reckon she could
her mouth is enormous and her fists are quite small. It would be more amusing if she couldn't get it out again
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:28, Reply)

i can do this, sadly
i don't even have a particularly massive mouth, nor do i have freakishly small hands.

i must be like one of those snakes that can dislocate their jaws.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:30, Reply)

Jebus!

( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)

i know
sexy image isn't it?!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

after reading that I tried :(

( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:38, Reply)

apparently something like
1 in 1,000,000 people can do it. i have never googled this "fact" though so it might be bollocks.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

Stuck is it?

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:41, Reply)

couldn't get it in
swipe must be special
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:51, Reply)

a lawyer with snake-like characteristics?
surely not!
( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)

haha
i wonder if i could do it before i was a lawyer - never tried!
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

snakes can't disclocate their jaws

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:48, Reply)

wikipedia agrees with you
fuck
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:50, Reply)

:-P

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:51, Reply)

I don't watch Dr. Who or that Diary of a Call Girl
but I would watch her attempt to put her fist in her mouth and then extract it.

*Phones BBC*
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:31, Reply)

BBC 3 will commission this.

(Zoz prayed for twink on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:33, Reply)

What about Apple though?
They're well evil.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:17, Reply)

more "smug" I find.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:21, Reply)

This one I'm talking about
Is responsible for it, directly and on porpouse, as it saves money.

The people who runs it are evil and that.

I always thought I'd rather be a hooker, but now...
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:25, Reply)

would you really rather sell yourself?
Than work for a big company?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:26, Reply)

It's not the big company thing
it's the actively messing with the environment for money.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:35, Reply)

even so
how is prostitution anymore justifiable in terms of the human condition than being bad to the environment?
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)

What's wrong with prostitution?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)

what's right with it?
This is probably an argument we can't have. No argument will change the mind of someone who doesn't see at first sight what's wrong with it
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

What's right with it?
The same that with any other hard working job. Prostitution wouldn't be a problem if it wasn't illegal. The fact that the girls need "protection" from men that steal their money and drug them makes it a bad job. The fact that I have something that you want and you pay for it to get it is not wrong at all.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:42, Reply)

That argument makes no sense
in a perfect world prostitution might be a viable job.

Do we live in a perfect world? No. We live in a world where prostitution is generally (with exceptions) a violent, seedy and crime filled business. Sex trafficking, rape and drug addiction are all part of it. But it's not really rape is it? She (and it is in large part a woman) is offering her wares, you can't rape the willing, they're doing it for the money after all. The whole thing makes me sick.

And yeah I'm really not a prude, but I would never touch a man who had visited a prostitute. The power dynamics are fucked up beyond belief, and I would view with the greatest distaste anyone who needed to pay to get off.
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)

But then I'm a weirdo I guess
and I know my views aren't shared by that many
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:52, Reply)

" ...I would view with the greatest distaste anyone who needed to pay to get off."
Does this include porn?
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:05, Reply)

If you mean BP
not really, no it's not. And the people who run it don't directly make the decisions that result in these issues, so I don't see why you'd call them evil.

It saves money because it's sole motive is to make profit and return for its shareholders. How it does that is directly driven by humanity's desire for oil, and things it does to save money are in direct response to the legislation it works to.

You can certainly say it doesn't care about the environment. But then it doesn't care about anything, because it can't because it isn't human and you are trying to project human characteristics onto an inanimate object.

If you are really looking for "responsibility" here, I'd consider the all-conquering US obsession with oil and specifically geographical self-sustainability with oil, that leads congress to permit deepwater drilling (which is fundamentally dangerous) in a hurricane zone with the bare minimum of protective or safety regs.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)

careful, you're giving serious answers on the internet again

( Kitty v1.0 desperately naive, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:37, Reply)

I know, it's a fucking curse.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:39, Reply)

No, I don't mean BP
And yes, the people who run it, from where I work, make those decisions (in fact, I'm being paid now to prove that the ugly option is cheaper and better)

Of course they're here to make profit, but that doesn't mean I have to work for them and help them doing it (and it's not oil related)

Deepwater drilling done properly is not so dangerous, but in USA don't follow the same regulations as in EU.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

deepwater drilling is always dangerous
because the rigs aren't solidly anchored. Oil and Gas 101. You're dead right about US/EU reg differences though.

Who are you talking about then, out of interest? I'd say if you have people at the very top making direct decisions about work then it's not very multinational in its behaviour
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:43, Reply)

I can't say, sorry
I signed I'd keep my mouth shut. I don't know if what I'm saying now it's too much in fact.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)

It's alright
Everyone here is on threats of arsekicking if we discuss Deepwater Horizon with the press, and I'm only an academic.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:47, Reply)

Oh, well
Are the Estates going to change the regulation to make it safer?

As you said, it's allways dangerous, but it can be made less dangerous.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)

almost certainly not
too much at stake from the US point of view. The irony of texan oilmen senators getting irate over oil spilt in the gulf was just too much, though.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:55, Reply)

Yep, it was quite laughable
If it hadn't been so sad.

They should all support things like this better: www.zdnet.com/news/google-funds-major-east-coast-wind-turbine-project/474406
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:03, Reply)

There are plenty of companies who deliberatly do something illegal
because the money saved is less than the punishment the goverment has for that crime.
Are you saying that is morally ok?
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

It's worse
If they do the legal thing by moving things around between different countries, so they don't need to pay any fine and end up putting more effluents in the environment than the other way round.

If you do something wrong and you pay for it, that's good. If you do something not too wrong here, and not too wrong there, and in the middle something quite wrong, but eh, who's going to care, it's international waters, then it's not so good.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:44, Reply)

Depends on how you view morals.
Individually, no. But you're still trying to apply individual human beliefs or contstraints onto an inanimate object. Morality, in your terms, does not apply to big business as it is not a human being.

But, as a direct answer, if the punishment is less than the profit they make, then humanity somewhere obviously considers the benefits outweigh the illegality, doesn't it? Or the punishment would be higher.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:46, Reply)

the only thing that anyone cares about
is money. the company will justify it by saying that they saved money which is better for their employees, shareholders and directors' duties. whether you believe this is exoneration depends on your own views i guess.
( rachelswipe with a fork, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)

At a fundamental level it's not even money but human desire.
that creates the market that is then, and can then, be driven only by money.

Oil is dead easy. Tell people we can prevent anything like deepwater horizon ever happening again and cut CO2 emissions by 75% and they'd go "yay". Tell them that to do that 50% of them will have to give up their cars and the rest will pay £5 a litre for fuel and they'll all go "fuck off"

And that's the bottom line. Not multinationals, not cutting corners, but simple base human desire.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:53, Reply)

You're so right there
I had friends that are so green and cool, you know the type, always telling me off for working in a refinery. But if you tell them to stop using petrol (or plastics of any kind) they'd look at you as if you had killed a kitty.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:02, Reply)

Not necessarily.
If a government in the 3rd world sets a fine of £50,000 for a something like heavy metal in the waters. To their local companies that would be enough to a multinational that's nothing.
Changing laws and punishments is a lot slower than buisiness works now, and their lobbiests slow it down as much as possible.
(PsychoChomp, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:56, Reply)

Multinational please!
I'm past the age for being a succesful hooker.
( girlinthehole, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:36, Reply)

But if you were again 20?

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:40, Reply)

Probably hooker then.
Actually can I specify dominatrix. That's more up my street.
( girlinthehole, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:41, Reply)

That's a cool job
You do what you want, when you want, and he begs for it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:45, Reply)

And pays.
I think it does take a certain amount of knowledge and skill though.
( girlinthehole, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:49, Reply)

It's never late to learn
Instead of Spanish, you could learn that.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Thu 14 Oct 2010, 12:52, Reply)

Haha!

( girlinthehole, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:02, Reply)

I had a question on a dating site
"If your partner has recently started to verbally abuse you, and it seems to be getting worse, what would you do?"
and the answers were either leave them, change my behaviour, insist they get counselling, or do something else to stop it.

I posted my dismay that there was no option for "Encourage it, I've been a very naughty boy".
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:19, Reply)

Years ago
I was made redundant for the second time and was applying for jobs left right and centre, I got pimped to a job with a bank's subsiduary by this agency I was signed up to and went to interiew. The money was right but this was selling loans to folk who could obviously not afford it (pre Ocean finance et al)- I baulked at this and when I was offered the job turned it down solely because of what I thought was the sheer fucking immorality of it all.

The worst of it all is that I would say my morality has changed over the years and the self righteousness I felt in my early twenties has been replaced with a "Is the money right? Yeah? Fuck 'em".
(SpunkyMcSpunkbubble Diddled your nubbin on, Thu 14 Oct 2010, 13:34, Reply)